Dominic Dromgoole

Biography

Dominic Dromgoole was Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre 2006-16, the Oxford Stage Company 1998-2005 and the Bush Theatre 1990-96. While at the Globe, he built a new indoor theatre, took a production of Hamlet to 196 countries, launched an online platform for the Globe’s filmed content, led an unprecedented international festival of Shakespeare productions, and created an ambitious new writing programme. Since leaving the Globe he has mounted a year long season of Oscar Wilde in the Vaudeville, directed one film and produced six with Open Palm Films, made a documentary on Shakespeare’s Folio and a concert film for Sky Arts.  He has directed plays in the West End, on tour, in Spain, China and the US.  He directed Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with the London Philharmonic in 2024 and Eugene Onegin with Wild Arts in 2025. He has written The Fulll Room for Methuen (2000); Will & Me for Penguin (2006); Hamlet: Globe to Globe for Canongate (2017); and Astonish Me for Profile (2022). His latest book, Time Frames, a history of a century of theatre will be published by Faber in August 2026.